HOW TO CARE OF CHILDREN WITH BRONCHITIS FOR QUICK RECOVERY

Weather change is a time for easily causing risk of respiratory disease in babies. In particular, bronchiolitis is commonly seen in young children, mostly in children under 2 years old, the younger a child gets, the more difficult to treat and need strictly monitoring. However, many parents are often subjective to this disease or failed to proper child care will easily lead to pneumonia.  

If you do not know how to care of children with bronchiolitis for quick recovery, please refer to the following information with AIH!

► Signs of bronchitis ​in children

Children with bronchiolitis have full of manifestations of common respiratory disease:

• Nasal discharge, nasal obstruction
• Dyspnea, wheeze​
• Dry cough, productive cough, cough frequently at night or early in the morning
• Fever, fatigue, vomit, meal refusal ​

Bronchospasm treatment will be various depending on the severity of condition. If parents find a child with significant wheeze, feeding refusal, you should take him/her to a medical facility to visit a doctor who provides the most effective way of monitoring and treatment. ​

► How to treat children with bronchiolitis at home for quick recovery? ​
Bronchiolitis can be treated at home if children do not show severe shortness of breath or permission from a doctor. ​

► Parents should apply the following measures to take care of children with bronchiolitis:​

• Strictly comply with a doctor’s prescription. ​
• Provide sufficiently water / milk to avoid dry inflamed throat, toxin elimination: in bronchiolitis, the supply of water/milk is very important. Dehydration will dry up the sputum and clogged small deep bronchi inside the lung cause increasing dyspnea for children. ​
• For weaning babies, balanced diet should include full of 4 main food groups are sugar, protein, fat and minerals. ​
• For infants, exclusive breastfeeding is still given at least in the first 6 months.
• For babies with high fever and diarrhea, oresol supplement is necessary for electrolyte hydration. ​
• Mothers need to pay attention to keep children away from the following foods: sugar-rich foods, soft drinks, indigestible foods,... 

► In addition, when a child has bronchiolitis, parents need to pay attention to his/her personal hygiene and habitat, as follows:

• Clean your child's throat regularly with a normal saline solution, especially in children with easily- allergic host factor... ​
• Keep your child's surrounding environment clean, airy living space, change bed sheets, blankets and mattress regularly. ​
• Wear airy clothes in summer, keep warm in the cold season. ​
• Restrictions on exposure to dog and cat fur, dust, charcoal stove smoke, smoke... ​​
• Wash your hands with soap before and after childcare, after going to the restroom ​
• Do not expose children to polluted environments, smog, especially tobacco smoke ​
• Keep your child away from adults or other children with respiratory diseases.

In order to help preventing and early detecting respiratory diseases in children, the American International Hospital (AIH) provides the package of screening for respiratory diseases in children by age with respiratory tract and pulmonary diseases, or those used to have Covid-19 infection, with persistent post-Covid-19 symptoms. By this package, children will be consulted, examined, carried out clinical and diagnostic imaging tests such as: respiratory, cardiovascular, intellectual, physical, multisystem inflammatory syndrome... for early identification of disease condition and appropriate treatment. ​

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Pediatrics – Neonatology at AIH provides in full of pediatric medical services, including general health check-up, vaccination, monitoring children’s physical and mental developments follow-up, nutrition consultation, diagnostic and therapeutic services. ​

Outpatient pediatrics at AIH is divided into two separate areas: one for athletic children and another for sick kids in the purpose of patient classification to avoid cross-contamination.  When children arrive hospital with suspicious symptoms, they will be transferred to a separate consulting area, thereby screening and isolation procedures are applied initially.